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NBA Sim Sports Picks for 7/13/20 on FanDuel

During this downtime in the sports calendar, FanDuel has been innovating a lot of different ways to get some daily fantasy sports action.

One of those includes NBA Sim Sports, a format that looks pretty much identical to the usual FanDuel offering. The only twist is that the games won't be played live. Players will instead be assigned a random game from one of their top 25 historical comparisons based on numberFire's algorithm.

Late-scratches and other games missed by players won't come into effect. Scores roll out throughout the slate for a bit of a sweat.

The best part? It's free to enter.

Here are some potential standout picks.

Best Values

Because player similarities are tied to numberFire's player evaluations, it makes sense to dig into those efficiency metrics to uncover possible value.

Here are the best positional values based on a player's given FanDuel salary versus his nERD score. This includes only players with at least 15.0 FanDuel points per game in the simulated formats so far.

For the most part, this is going to be a list of studly, efficient players, but exercise caution with some lower-tier names who happen to pop in terms of efficiency.

RankPGSGSFPFC
1Damian
Lillard
Norman
Powell
LeBron
James
Anthony
Davis
Rudy
Gobert
2Chris
Paul
Delon
Wright
Danilo
Gallinari
Daniel
Theis
Mitchell
Robinson
3Luka
Doncic
DeMar
DeRozan
Gordon
Hayward
Nerlens
Noel
JaVale
McGee
4Seth
Curry
JJ
Redick
T.J.
Warren
Brandon
Clarke
Dwight
Howard
5Kyle
Lowry
Terence
Davis
OG
Anunoby
Domantas
Sabonis
Hassan
Whiteside
6Kemba
Walker
Devin
Booker
Pascal
Siakam
Jayson
Tatum
Chris
Boucher
7Monte
Morris
Fred
VanVleet
Jaylen
Brown
Rondae
Hollis-
Jefferson
Nikola
Jokic
8Jamal
Murray
Shai
Gilgeous-
Alexander
Doug
McDermott
Maxi
Kleber
Steven
Adams
9Tyus
Jones
Kentavious
Caldwell-
Pope
Tim
Hardaway
Paul
Millsap
Jonas
Valanciunas
10Jordan
McLaughlin
Donovan
Mitchell
Justin
Holiday
Serge
Ibaka
Enes
Kanter
11Michael
Carter-
Williams
Bradley
Beal
Brandon
Ingram
Michael
Porter
Tony
Bradley
12T.J.
McConnell
Jordan
Clarkson
Dorian
Finney-
Smith
Jerami
Grant
Jaxson
Hayes




The author of this article has no involvement with the NBA Sim Sports simulations powered by numberFire and has no knowledge of the results of tonight’s contest.